I am worried that such specimen could be concealing deadly bacteria/viruses that man does not know how to handle.
I'm not. But to reassure you, he will be doing all his work in a sterile environment, to avoid contaminating the specimen. Happily, the precautions work both ways.
Mind you, there is a rumor that AIDS was a rogue virus that escaped from some American lab.
There are also rumors that the moon is made of green cheese, and that the rapture will be next Thursday. Do you plan on repeating them too?
what a load of crap.in all my years admining linux systems i have never seen ANYTHING even remotely close to a windows blue screen style crash.
I had a hacked version of sendmail that was working just fine on BSD. We tried moving it over to Linux, froze the machine solid (no panic, no nothing) everytime I ran it. Went back to BSD.
Most databases are descended from the Interactive Graphics Retrieval System INGRES.
Care to name a couple? DB2 comes from System/R. Oracle seems to be home grown. Sybase came indirectly from Britton Lee, but was mostly written from scratch. SQL Server came from Sybase.
Certainly RTI's product was based on Ingres.
The original coder of Ingres later started a follow on project called Postgres and when SQL was standardised it became PostgreSQL.
Hate to break it to you, but there was a HELL of a lot more than one person coding Ingres, over a very long time.
Joe Kalash
Chief Programmer, Ingres Project
1982-1985
(I may still have some business cards to prove it)
the Coptic language (a derivation of hieroglyphics)
Coptic isn't derived from hieroglyphics, but from the Greek alphabet. It has 24 letters from the Greek alphabet, 7 letters to represent sounds that Egyptian had but Greek did not, and one monogram.
However, Coptic is a written version of the Egyptian language, as are hieroglyphics, which might be what you are thinking of.
If you put twelve people in a room, a lot of them will just agree out of groupthink.
Ever been on a jury? I have. Every person on the jury took the job very seriously. There was no groupthink (it is hard to do, as you are forbidden to talk about the case until you begin deliberations). All the evidence was hashed out again, and again.
I KNOW I'm gonna regret posting this, but the "head" is from the episode 'The Corbomite Maneuver'. It is the puppet head of Balok, who turn out to be Clint Howard...
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What really makes it all hard to understand (to my mind), is so many of the torrent sites aren't in the US, so not all US codes apply, or apply differently.
The Pirate Bay (as an example) is in Sweden, and claims to have precedent from the Swedish Supreme Court that they are legal Legal Threats. IANAL, much less a Swedish one, so I can't comment on the legality. However, I do find the interaction between US and various international laws to be interesting.
We did the SVR2 and BSD work (that was part of the "usual" Unisoft product), and standard UNIX/BSD utilities, along with a bunch of "under the hood" stuff most users never knew about. We didn't directly do any MacOS changes, but we (well, mostly Paul Campbell) had a hand in the MacOS environment you could run from A/UX.
We had a compiler suite (we built native on the box), that shipped with the release, but I really can't remember anymore if it was GCC based or not (I DO remember we were trying to sell some 3rd party compilers, maybe Greenhills?, as add on products). I THINK it was AT&T based, but it has been too long.
Steve Jobs was not involved in any way with A/UX. I faintly remember he contacted Unisoft about maybe doing the initial port for the Next box (lots of people used us to bootstrap, we were quite fast at it), but I can't remember if anything came of it (I really don't think so).
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I think what really killed A/UX was MAE
Naah. What killed A/UX was Apple's refusal to sell the product. If you weren't a developer, or an educational institution, you couldn't buy the damn thing for love nor money.
Made selling products into the marketplace pretty dang hard (guess who tried).:-(
Apple created an amazing flavor of Unix with A/UX.
Apple bought an amazing flavor of Unix. The actual work was done by Unisoft, a Unix porting house way back in the day (I was the engineer in charge). FWIW, the project was code named "Pigs in Space".
Sadly, they never told us (or anyone else) that the project was just for a checkbox item. Lots of third parties wanted the system to succeed.
For example the downfall of the Egyptian empire was partially due to a massive warm spell that caused crops to fail and deserts to form.
You sure you read that right? Egypt fell either when Alexander, or the Romans invaded (depending on if you think the Ptolemies ruling from Egypt was Egyptian enough). As Egypt's wealth was in their grain, I'm pretty sure the Nile was still flooding quite happily.
What you might be remembering is that the start of the Egyptian kingdom was partly caused by northen Africa changing from a large expanse of lakes into the Sahara desert. That forced tribes more and more into the Nile valley, and all the tasty food therein.
The US is no more of a "hyperpower" now than it was 30 years ago.
A "hyperpower" is defined as a country that is vastly stronger than any rival. How long it has been such a thing, isn't part of the definition. With the collapse of the Soviet Union (who held at least a theoretical parity), there is no remaining country that can come close to our military (we spend more on our military than then next 10 countries combined) or economic power.
Let me know when the US has been the dominant global superpower for a thousand years ( see: Rome ) then we can start talking about "hyperpower".
Rome was never a global power. They couldn't mount an expedition to India, much less somewhere as far off as China. They were a regional power.
Rome also wasn't a superpower for anything like 1,000 years. It could claim superpower status in about 150 BC, with the destruction of Carthage, and that lasted til say 400 AD (Rome was sacked in 410). Not to say 500 years is anything to sneeze at!
(1) Let the generals run the combat. AFAIK there were several opportunities to either retreat and regroup or to give up ground to assist other units that could have actually won the Eastern Front.
It is not that simple. With better leadership, the Nazi's might have held what they got, and forced the Soviets into a stalemate, but it isn't likely they could have actually defeated the Soviet Union.
They were fighting a battle on a massive scale. The Eastern front was close to 2,000 miles long (from Leningrad to the Black Sea). There was no real way they could keep pressure along a front that long. There just weren't enough Germans. The sheer weight of Soviet numbers was always going to turn the tide, it was mostly a question of when (and at what cost). When you add in better equipped troops for the region (the Siberian troops had real cold weather gear, the later T tanks scared the hell out of the Germans, etc), I don't know that the Germans could have won after the initial surprise factor wore off.
Individually, the German soldier was better trained and lead, but there were a lot more Russians.
I believe the first commercial unix system outside of Bell labs was for Stonebraker's ingres project.
Commercial UNIX predates Mike starting the Ingres project. More to the point, as a University, CAL didn't have a commercial license, just an educational one.
Originally, the University (or at least the Ingres Project) tried to sell it. They got into a bunch of trouble with AT&T over it (as UC only had an educational license, not a commercial license).
While the remote is OK, it suffers the same problem as most other device remotes, it only operates one thing. As soon as you have a VCR, DVD, stereo,... it becomes just another in the clutter. I replaced it with a programmable universal remote (MX-500) a long time ago.
The remote was also annoying as there was no way to extend it, even for something simple you HAVE to do. My idiot TV always resets itself to channel 3 when turned off. So the first thing I want to do is change the channel back to "AV" input (where the nice S-video attached to my Tivo is). There is no way to have the Tivo remote change a channel.
I got this from ScienceNow (a subscription only sister site to Science, where the original technical article was published):
Now, Lanny Schmidt of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Xenophon Verykios of the University of Patras, Greece, and colleagues have developed a potentially portable ethanol converter. In it, a solution of ethanol and water passes through a fuel injector--a nozzle that ordinarily pumps gasoline into a car's motor--and into a gently heated chamber, where it vaporizes and mixes with air. The mixture then passes through a porous plug of aluminum oxide covered with rhodium and cerium oxide, which catalyzes reactions that yield hydrogen and carbon dioxide. The reactions heat the catalyst to over 700C, which keeps the process going. The gadget converts essentially all of the hydrogen in ethanol into hydrogen gas, the researchers report.
"Their process has the advantage that it is very, very fast," says James Dumesic, a chemical engineer at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who is working on producing hydrogen from sugars. But he points out that the ethanol process also generates a lot of carbon monoxide, which the high-power fuel cells that might someday propel cars cannot tolerate. Gabor Somorjai, a chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, points out that rhodium happens to be "the most expensive catalyst you can ever make."
My problem with Bradbury came when I was a kid, and was given a boxed set of like five of his books. Somewhere around the third book I realized I was able to predict (correctly) what was going to happen. I haven't read much of his since.
I guess as an added aside, I should say I did enjoy them up until then...
But if you are like me, you will revert really quickly. Until I changed what the ->| button did (normally goes to the end of the show), I never noticed how often I used it.
Back in August, a NASA panel recommended keeping Hubble:
pdf link at nasa
But they did want proposed experiments to go through another round of peer review.
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I'm not. But to reassure you, he will be doing all his work in a sterile environment, to avoid contaminating the specimen. Happily, the precautions work both ways.
Mind you, there is a rumor that AIDS was a rogue virus that escaped from some American lab.
There are also rumors that the moon is made of green cheese, and that the rapture will be next Thursday. Do you plan on repeating them too?
I had a hacked version of sendmail that was working just fine on BSD. We tried moving it over to Linux, froze the machine solid (no panic, no nothing) everytime I ran it. Went back to BSD.
Care to name a couple? DB2 comes from System/R. Oracle seems to be home grown. Sybase came indirectly from Britton Lee, but was mostly written from scratch. SQL Server came from Sybase. Certainly RTI's product was based on Ingres.
The original coder of Ingres later started a follow on project called Postgres and when SQL was standardised it became PostgreSQL.
Hate to break it to you, but there was a HELL of a lot more than one person coding Ingres, over a very long time.
Joe Kalash
Chief Programmer, Ingres Project
1982-1985
(I may still have some business cards to prove it)
I see you don't know very much about Goverments.
Static Single Assignment, optimization techniques. Try here for more details.
Coptic isn't derived from hieroglyphics, but from the Greek alphabet. It has 24 letters from the Greek alphabet, 7 letters to represent sounds that Egyptian had but Greek did not, and one monogram.
However, Coptic is a written version of the Egyptian language, as are hieroglyphics, which might be what you are thinking of.
Ever been on a jury? I have. Every person on the jury took the job very seriously. There was no groupthink (it is hard to do, as you are forbidden to talk about the case until you begin deliberations). All the evidence was hashed out again, and again.
I KNOW I'm gonna regret posting this, but the "head" is from the episode 'The Corbomite Maneuver'. It is the puppet head of Balok, who turn out to be Clint Howard...
What really makes it all hard to understand (to my mind), is so many of the torrent sites aren't in the US, so not all US codes apply, or apply differently.
The Pirate Bay (as an example) is in Sweden, and claims to have precedent from the Swedish Supreme Court that they are legal Legal Threats. IANAL, much less a Swedish one, so I can't comment on the legality. However, I do find the interaction between US and various international laws to be interesting.
We did the SVR2 and BSD work (that was part of the "usual" Unisoft product), and standard UNIX/BSD utilities, along with a bunch of "under the hood" stuff most users never knew about. We didn't directly do any MacOS changes, but we (well, mostly Paul Campbell) had a hand in the MacOS environment you could run from A/UX.
We had a compiler suite (we built native on the box), that shipped with the release, but I really can't remember anymore if it was GCC based or not (I DO remember we were trying to sell some 3rd party compilers, maybe Greenhills?, as add on products). I THINK it was AT&T based, but it has been too long.
Steve Jobs was not involved in any way with A/UX. I faintly remember he contacted Unisoft about maybe doing the initial port for the Next box (lots of people used us to bootstrap, we were quite fast at it), but I can't remember if anything came of it (I really don't think so).
Naah. What killed A/UX was Apple's refusal to sell the product. If you weren't a developer, or an educational institution, you couldn't buy the damn thing for love nor money.
Made selling products into the marketplace pretty dang hard (guess who tried). :-(
Apple bought an amazing flavor of Unix. The actual work was done by Unisoft, a Unix porting house way back in the day (I was the engineer in charge). FWIW, the project was code named "Pigs in Space".
Sadly, they never told us (or anyone else) that the project was just for a checkbox item. Lots of third parties wanted the system to succeed.
You sure you read that right? Egypt fell either when Alexander, or the Romans invaded (depending on if you think the Ptolemies ruling from Egypt was Egyptian enough). As Egypt's wealth was in their grain, I'm pretty sure the Nile was still flooding quite happily.
What you might be remembering is that the start of the Egyptian kingdom was partly caused by northen Africa changing from a large expanse of lakes into the Sahara desert. That forced tribes more and more into the Nile valley, and all the tasty food therein.
A "hyperpower" is defined as a country that is vastly stronger than any rival. How long it has been such a thing, isn't part of the definition. With the collapse of the Soviet Union (who held at least a theoretical parity), there is no remaining country that can come close to our military (we spend more on our military than then next 10 countries combined) or economic power.
Let me know when the US has been the dominant global superpower for a thousand years ( see: Rome ) then we can start talking about "hyperpower".
Rome was never a global power. They couldn't mount an expedition to India, much less somewhere as far off as China. They were a regional power.
Rome also wasn't a superpower for anything like 1,000 years. It could claim superpower status in about 150 BC, with the destruction of Carthage, and that lasted til say 400 AD (Rome was sacked in 410). Not to say 500 years is anything to sneeze at!
It is not that simple. With better leadership, the Nazi's might have held what they got, and forced the Soviets into a stalemate, but it isn't likely they could have actually defeated the Soviet Union.
They were fighting a battle on a massive scale. The Eastern front was close to 2,000 miles long (from Leningrad to the Black Sea). There was no real way they could keep pressure along a front that long. There just weren't enough Germans. The sheer weight of Soviet numbers was always going to turn the tide, it was mostly a question of when (and at what cost). When you add in better equipped troops for the region (the Siberian troops had real cold weather gear, the later T tanks scared the hell out of the Germans, etc), I don't know that the Germans could have won after the initial surprise factor wore off.
Individually, the German soldier was better trained and lead, but there were a lot more Russians.
Commercial UNIX predates Mike starting the Ingres project. More to the point, as a University, CAL didn't have a commercial license, just an educational one.
Snicker. Do you really think they hired all those programmers, and never, in all those years, did a rewrite of the core system? They weren't idiots...
The source base diverged over 20 years ago. I don't think there will be much in common anymore.
Originally, the University (or at least the Ingres Project) tried to sell it. They got into a bunch of trouble with AT&T over it (as UC only had an educational license, not a commercial license).
The remote was also annoying as there was no way to extend it, even for something simple you HAVE to do. My idiot TV always resets itself to channel 3 when turned off. So the first thing I want to do is change the channel back to "AV" input (where the nice S-video attached to my Tivo is). There is no way to have the Tivo remote change a channel.
Really? Can you list the first 10,000 or so? I'm curious.
Now, Lanny Schmidt of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Xenophon Verykios of the University of Patras, Greece, and colleagues have developed a potentially portable ethanol converter. In it, a solution of ethanol and water passes through a fuel injector--a nozzle that ordinarily pumps gasoline into a car's motor--and into a gently heated chamber, where it vaporizes and mixes with air. The mixture then passes through a porous plug of aluminum oxide covered with rhodium and cerium oxide, which catalyzes reactions that yield hydrogen and carbon dioxide. The reactions heat the catalyst to over 700C, which keeps the process going. The gadget converts essentially all of the hydrogen in ethanol into hydrogen gas, the researchers report.
"Their process has the advantage that it is very, very fast," says James Dumesic, a chemical engineer at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who is working on producing hydrogen from sugars. But he points out that the ethanol process also generates a lot of carbon monoxide, which the high-power fuel cells that might someday propel cars cannot tolerate. Gabor Somorjai, a chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, points out that rhodium happens to be "the most expensive catalyst you can ever make."
My problem with Bradbury came when I was a kid, and was given a boxed set of like five of his books. Somewhere around the third book I realized I was able to predict (correctly) what was going to happen. I haven't read much of his since. I guess as an added aside, I should say I did enjoy them up until then...
But if you are like me, you will revert really quickly. Until I changed what the ->| button did (normally goes to the end of the show), I never noticed how often I used it.
Back in August, a NASA panel recommended keeping Hubble:
pdf link at nasa
But they did want proposed experiments to go through another round of peer review.